Daxnavs rally from 22-down to beat Sagbaf in CUBA hoops tourney

Jonas N. Panerio 05/28/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Team Daxnavs overhauled a huge 22-point deficit to stun SAGBAF, 76-73, in the CUBA Summer League 2019 last Saturday, May 25, 2019, at the Capitol Parish gym. Daxnavs made the rally behind the…

Bitter taste for Cuba as it imports sugar for the first time

AFP 10/24/2018

SUGAR: it’s so quintessentially Cuban that even a young, machete-wielding Fidel Castro used to hack away at the cane stalks vital to the Caribbean island’s economy. Now, the long-time world leader in sugar production is importing the…

Woman rides paddleboard from Cuba to Florida Keys

AP 06/28/2018

Key West, Florida — A Florida woman has completed a more than 100-mile (160-kilometer) voyage from Cuba to the Florida Keys on a standup paddleboard. Victoria Burgess arrived in Key West on Wednesday, paddling across the Florida…

Cuba: 110 died in plane crash, 3 survivors ‘critical’

AP 05/20/2018

HAVANA — The only three survivors of Cuba’s worst aviation disaster in three decades were clinging to life Saturday, a day after their passenger jet crashed in a fireball in Havana’s rural outskirts with 113 people on…

Pharmapro in finals of cuba

Jonas N. Panerio 08/08/2017

PHARMAPRO leaned on an incredible fourth period to take down DaxNavs in the semifinals, 85-73, and barge into the final round of the Cebu United Ballers Association (CUBA) tournament last weekend at the Capitol Parish gym. Down…

His usual hype or (shudder) not?

Solita Collas-Monsod 10/22/2016

Now I know how the Cubans must have felt when Fidel Castro, who overthrew the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and gained their adulation for it, declared himself a Marxist-Leninist two years later. Of course,…

Prevention is better than cure

Contributor 07/28/2016

Health advocates rejoiced at the appointment of Dr. Paulyn Jean Rosell Ubial as the new health secretary, more so when she said she would focus on prevention during her watch. It is good to know that through…

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